Sentences with phrase «on violin in»

Arman (French, 1928 - 2005) Hommage à Yves Klein, 1992 Pigment, gold leaf and acrylic on violin in plexiglass, in three parts Dimensions: 26 × 12 1/2 × 8 7/10 in (66 × 31.8 × 22.2 cm)...

Tony Conrad performs a solo improvisation on violin in anticipation of ISSUE Project Room's «Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain» anniversary festival.

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He performed on a violin made in 1713 that cost him $ 3.5 million dollars.

His band fleshes out the skeleton that he creates on his looping machine, and Bird sings / plays guitar / whistles / plays violin in all the right places.

There is a cricket on a hill in China playing the worlds smallest violin for you.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

On one occasion we were trying to talk above the noise of the seven children — a violin was being played in one room, a piano in another.

This was a fitting send - off, as he played the crowd like a violin and proved just why Triple H and indie fans were so high on him in the first place.

We got Poindexter on the violin, and Lewis and Gilbert will be joining in.

Reading music is an essential part of Waldorf Education as in Grade 4, students begin to play in a String Orchestra, where they develop their musicianship through playing together on the violin, viola, cello, or double bass.

The way I feel today, I could go on and on about how I find balance extremely challenging with attachment parenting, pull in an audio clip of the violin music in Young Frankenstein, (hmmm, don't mind if I do... quite appropriate for Halloween I think) and then accomplish nothing of value for myself or anyone else.

In first through eighth grades, children receive instruction on the recorder, and in fourth grade they also learn to play violin, viola, or cellIn first through eighth grades, children receive instruction on the recorder, and in fourth grade they also learn to play violin, viola, or cellin fourth grade they also learn to play violin, viola, or cello.

In the third grade the recorder and stringed instruments such as the violin are introduced and carried on throughout middle school.

For example, the middle C on a piano does not sound the same as the middle C on a guitar, a violin or a flute because these objects each vibrate in a complex way.

But Pollens notes that the photos Chitwood used aren't standardised, so tiny differences in the way the violin rests on a surface when it is photographed can influence its apparent shape.

It's exceedingly difficult to find measurable differences in the tonal quality of the cherished old violins and more ordinary ones, let alone explain what causes them, comments Colin Gough, physicist and expert on musical acoustics at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Gough sees problems with the new study.

Albert Einstein was playing his violin in a duet with Werner Heisenberg, who was accompanying him on the piano.

In the case of the violin, for example, warmer weather changes the amount of friction between the bow and the strings, changing the way the bow pulls on each string.

After spending thousands of dollars on music lessons and instruments for their children, parents often watch in dismay as once - coveted flutes, clarinets, and violins are unceremoniously abandoned.

At the moment, I'm home on spring break («spring» break that started in February), in the midst of more homework than anticipated, being / playing violin in a wedding, and feeling generally tired.

He was a doctor, self - taught in violin and tennis, successful in his career, and yet he had all but given up on finding fulfillment in his personal life when he came to see Lisa.

Cue the soaring violins, «where eagles fly on a mountain high», the girls in the audience blub into their ice cream and wish it was them.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Chen Kaige's first Chinese film since the poorly received, Hollywood - produced Killing Me Softly is based on a true story of an adolescent violin prodigy coming of age in Beijing.

An eccentric loner living on next to no money in a rundown farmhouse in Laurelville, Ohio, Houck lives and breathes the violin.

It sure seems like it's gonna be that, as Downey's Los Angeles Times columnist, Steve Lopez, ever on the search for a good story, meets cute with Foxx's schizophrenic street person Nathaniel Ayers as the latter is playing, and playing surprisingly well, a two - stringed violin in a public park.

Tasked to produce a report by noon the next day, Peter falls asleep on the job only to have his bacon saved by temp Kris; to a rapturous violin score, she declares, «Before you tell your boss that you're not in control of the situation, why don't you let me do my job?»

In the case of 12 Years a Slave, the subject is played out on human bodies and in objects: a single sheet of precious foolscap writing paper, the juice of berries, a violiIn the case of 12 Years a Slave, the subject is played out on human bodies and in objects: a single sheet of precious foolscap writing paper, the juice of berries, a violiin objects: a single sheet of precious foolscap writing paper, the juice of berries, a violin.

With a haunting theme that's often accompanied by female voice, Del Mar's flowing orchestral melody captures a lyricism that's worthy of Debussy's «La Mer» in communicating the literally transformative effect of nature on man, his lovely themes for aching violin capturing despair and acceptance, playful pizzicatos embodying a renewed sense of hope (as well as endearingly comic crabs) and exotic percussion hearing the mystery of an island and its outlying sea.

From Slamdance, we have three documentaries — The Modern Jungle (which analyzes the relationship between filmmaker and subject among dirt - poor peasants in Chiapas), Strad Style (about an unlikely violin maker and his quest to recreate a renowned 18th - century instrument) and Supergirl (a tale of the strongest 12 - year - old girl in the world)-- and three narratives — Dave Made a Maze (a demented fantasy about an out - of - control labyrinth), Future ’38 (a clever sci - fi look forward from 1938 to the year 2018) and Weather House (a hypnotic meditation on the end of the world).

YouTube act Lindsey Stirling has taken her dazzling violin performance art on the road in a tour that manages to be even more entertaining that her YouTube videos.

Master cinematographer Roger Deakins provides austere photography, and the soundtrack — from crisp sound effects to James Newton Howard's score (featuring Hilary Hahn on violin)-- is practically all Shyamalan has going for him in terms of frightening misdirection.

At the scoring stage in London, Trapanese placed the violins up in the rafters and kept the low strings on the ground.

«Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

On 2017 state tests, this selective, public / private partnership where kids are admitted based not on IQ scores but on a musical audition, and where instruction in piano, violin or flute is a daily part of the curriculum, ranked # On 2017 state tests, this selective, public / private partnership where kids are admitted based not on IQ scores but on a musical audition, and where instruction in piano, violin or flute is a daily part of the curriculum, ranked # on IQ scores but on a musical audition, and where instruction in piano, violin or flute is a daily part of the curriculum, ranked # on a musical audition, and where instruction in piano, violin or flute is a daily part of the curriculum, ranked # 1!

On one recent afternoon, fifth - graders reflected on passages from the book «How to Eat Fried Worms,» fourth - graders learned about topography in preparation for a field trip to the Museum of Science, and some students in other grades slid bows across cellos and violins to the tune of «Carnival.&raquOn one recent afternoon, fifth - graders reflected on passages from the book «How to Eat Fried Worms,» fourth - graders learned about topography in preparation for a field trip to the Museum of Science, and some students in other grades slid bows across cellos and violins to the tune of «Carnival.&raquon passages from the book «How to Eat Fried Worms,» fourth - graders learned about topography in preparation for a field trip to the Museum of Science, and some students in other grades slid bows across cellos and violins to the tune of «Carnival.»

Under the right conditions, the disc, the pads and the caliper they're mounted in can start to vibrate — in exactly the same way a violin's string vibrates when stroked by the horsehairs on the bow.

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken (Disney - Hyperion, 1/5) The Darkest Minds author kicks off a new time - traveling series this month, starring a violin prodigy who suddenly finds herself on a wooden ship in the 1700s.

The theme song relied heavily on violins, with a few horns sprinkled in for sinister effect.

In fact, Kristin is no amateur musician; she has a Bachelor's of Music degree from Appalachian State University, and is trained on clarinet and violin.

You'll find a city with a wild soundtrack, from dueling mariachis in the Jardín to the busker in front of the San Francisco Church playing «Smells Like Teen Spirit» on his violin, while a woodwind ensemble plays Mozart in the Angela Peralta Theater.

There was a marketing video they put out showing people playing instruments in the air, saying that the individual finger tracking would be good enough to detect such minute gestures and associate it with placement on the neck of a violin or the keys of a keyboard.

At 4 p.m., composer and vocalist Amirtha Kidambi assembles an inter-generational quartet in a set of improvised music accompanied by Miya Masaoka on the koto, Erica Dicker on the violin, and Andria Nicodemou on the vibraphone.

In keeping with Quiet Earth «s ongoing examination of humanity's place amid the changing volumes of planet Earth, Ballroom Marfa presents C. Spencer Yeh's improvisations on violin, voice, and electronics.

In the most memorable of these, she stood on a block of ice, playing her violin while wearing her ice skates.

A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to concentrate on his solo music, an always - spontaneously - composed amalgam of extended techniques for drum set and non-percussion instruments of his own making incorporated into his kit: e.g. violin strings stretched across drum heads, modified reed instruments that transform the drums into resonators which can, in turn, be used to incite strips of metal to react to the drum membranes» Chladni - plate - like modes of vibration, etc..

With simultaneous projections of four screens, Video Quartet is a 13 - minute - long compilation of cinematic scenes emphasizing sound, including Jack Nicholson playing the piano in Five Easy Pieces, Meryl Streep on the violin, and Ella Fitzgerald singing — sampled and assembled into an original musical composition.

Western European instruments can be seen and heard: an accordion plays as it unfolds along the length of a lamp post, a frame drum rolls loudly through a park landscape, a flute trills as it sails off into the sky with a balloon, the chestnuts in a chestnut tree play a gong, and a violin turns on a merry - go - round.

Both Islamic Violins and In Walking Distance are presented as part of the Mitchell Center's INTERSECTIONS, a new Mitchell Center initiative focused on Houston's complex and diverse Muslim population, with an emphasis on the University of Houston's own student body.

In 2005, Olafur and classical violin maker Hans Johannsson began work on the development of a new instrument, with the objective to reinterpret the traditions of 17th - and 18th - century violin making using today's technology and a contemporary visual aesthetic.